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'The doctor decided that rather than wait for an ambulance she would drive him to hospital in her car herself and he asked if it was ok to leave his bike with us.

'The patient was very lucky in that although the knife was plunged into his skull it bent on impact with the bone and the blade went down his face outside the skull.

'He was very very lucky that the blade hit him in the wrong spot to kill him.

'He fought for his bike back and rode to us as he knew where we were and we are his GP and when he got here he just walked in and calmly asked for help.

He survived and rode a mile to his GP who said: 'The patient was very lucky in that although the knife was plunged into his skull it bent on impact with the bone and the blade went down his face outside the skull'

'This is not something that happens every day and it seems it is a violent gang who have struck viciously a few times in the last few weeks and they will be caught.

'It was not even an expensive bike and is one he cycles on to and from work each day. Why they used the level of violence they did is just beyond me.'

Shaun is the popular manager of Soo She, a local sushi and Asian restaurant on the Strand and he cycles to and from work every day.

He was rushed to the Tygerberg Hospital nearby on Monday afternoon and underwent emergency surgery with a spokesman confirming he was 'stable'.

Friend Carl Block said on Facebook: 'I was with him in the doctors. He rode himself there was was so calm and polite to the doctors saying: ''Can a doctor please help?''

'This guy is an amazing person and I have known him for five years and was in tears last night and couldn't sleep. I am asking you to all please pray for Shaun'.

The photographs have gone viral on social media with one showing Shaun stood bleeding in the doctors surgery and a second of an x-ray of the knife in his head.

The South African Police Service confirmed they are investigating the attack.

Former South African cycling champion Wimpie van der Merwe, 61, said he was attacked while with his cycling partner in exactly the same place a week before.

The former world champ said Elize Jansen van Rensburg, 55, probably fell victim to the same gang who pushed her off her bike breaking her hip, pelvis and coccyx.

He stormed: 'Police do your work. You know where the hot spots are but you do little or nothing. How many cyclists must be attacked before you take this seriously?'.

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South African cyclist with knife buried in his head calmly asks for help after riding to surgery